Decades before Kurt Cobain and Nirvana delivered the seismic shock of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in 1991 that changed popular music forever, there was another band called Nirvana. The British ...

For a brief moment in the spring of 1991, one of the darkest, most underrated songs in the Nirvana catalogue almost met its final fate on the cutting room floor. The process of saving that song ...

It’s about just doing your best. Let’s do a lightning round of your best-known songs, starting with “Listen to the Music” (1972, No. 11). Johnston: That was written in my bedroom in San Jose.

The annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala returns for its 54th iteration on Thursday (June 12) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York, and we’ve got the stories behind ...